[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 13:55, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:11 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> > How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the Journal
>> > hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my knowledgable
>> > flatmate Mr. Innocenti?
>>
>> Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code.
>
>
> As we're there, we might want to add a progress display for long copy
> operations. Currently, if you drop a large file on the journal icon, the
> UI freezes for a long time with no indication of progress, tempting the
> user to perform a hard reboot (and thus corrupting the datastore :-).
>
> If nobody has time to implement a nice progress bar, at least we could
> put on the busy cursor (which is animated in our cursor theme, iirc).
>
> The copy could probably be made fully asynchronous, but with no progress
> indication, there's a potential for users to extract USB sticks before
> the operation is finished.

All that makes sense, we may want to consider providing the same UX as
with downloads.

Regards,

Tomeu

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